Medisys Compliance

MARCH 10, 2024

Introduction Wound care billing in 2024 continues to be a dynamic and intricate aspect of healthcare administration, offering both challenges and opportunities for providers and coders. Prior Authorization Challenges and Strategies Another challenge in wound care billing in 2024 is navigating prior authorization requirements.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

What You Should Know: Rising healthcare expenses, lack of certainty over costs and financial support and poor coordination between providers and payers have caused consumers to feel more stressed than ever before about their healthcare bills.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 1, 2024

Here’s a quick look at some of the health IT jobs we found: Director of Business Development – Healthcare Information Technology – Planet Technology Coding Manager – BMPG – Blount Memorial Hospital Patient Services Representative – Memorial West Clinic – INTEGRIS Health Senior MEDITECH Consultant – HCA (..)

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Medisys Compliance

APRIL 11, 2024

A New Era for Mental Health Access The landscape of mental healthcare in the United States underwent a significant change on January 1, 2024. Marriage and Family Therapists (MFTs) and Mental Health Counselors (MHCs) can now directly bill Medicare for services they furnish and diagnose.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 1, 2023

consumers say they can’t afford to pay their medical bills on-time, based on the 2023 Consumer Survey from Access One, a financial services company focused on healthcare payments. Furthermore, one-third of consumers are not confident they could pay a medical bill of $500 or more. Two-thirds of U.S.

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Medisys Compliance

JANUARY 4, 2024

Remember, meticulous documentation, staying abreast of coding updates, and leveraging technology are your keys to navigating the ever-evolving billing landscape with confidence.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 24, 2024

We hope you enjoy this look at some of the health IT jobs we saw healthcare organizations trying to fill this week.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 12, 2023

consumers feel in worse financial shape now than in 2022, with inflation a top concern, discovered in the 2024 New Year’s Financial Resolutions Study from Fidelity Investments. adults 18 and over in October 2023 to gauge peoples’ perspectives on personal finances, and well-being currently and into 2024. One-third of U.S.

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Medisys Compliance

APRIL 1, 2024

After December 31st, 2024, new POS codes specifically for telehealth will be implemented: POS 02 – Telehealth (originating site is not the patient’s home) POS 10 – Telehealth (patient’s home is the originating site) HCPCS Codes These codes identify specific telehealth services beyond a standard visit.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

Explaining Medical Bills. An AI-powered chatbot will be available in the future through Epic’s Hello World platform that will help explain complex medical bills to patients. Early response has been positive with some patients commenting how the generated responses are more empathetic than prior communications.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

feel their well-being or healing was negatively impacted by difficulty paying for their medical care. Welcome to the convergence of patients’ health care life with financial and retail lives, we learn from the 2024 Healthcare Financial Experience Study from Cedar. One in two consumers in the U.S. Cedar polled 1,239 U.S.

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Compliancy Group

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In the other fraud scheme, Medicare patients were billed an estimated $2 billion for urinary catheters they never received. Pharmacy Fraud and Kickback Scheme In early February 2024, the co-owner and the administrator of a New Jersey pharmacy admitted to defrauding insurance providers, including Medicare and Medicaid.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. Whether you’re a patient or a physician in the U.S., While the 118 th U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Partnerships California HHS designated nine Qualified Health Information Organizations to facilitate information exchange in the state starting in 2024. WebMD Ignite and Freshpaint are partnering to incorporate patient privacy into healthcare marketing services.

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Jane Sarashon

APRIL 1, 2024

As we start the month of April 2024 in the U.S., That’s twice as many patients who would prefer to pay their health care bills on doctor’s or provider’s websites versus online through their health plan’s website (19%). ‘Tis the season for J.P. Mailing a paper check?

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 12, 2024

Those subsidies are one of the reasons cited for record enrollment in 2024 plans , with more than 20 million people signing up so far. One last point — ACA enrollment generally must occur during the annual open enrollment, which for 2024 plans opened Nov. Attempts to reach a representative for Retton were not immediately successful.

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Medisys Compliance

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

*This article uses Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes, copyright 2024 by the American Medical Association. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association. All rights reserved.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Health Populi’s Hot Points: According to the 2024 Healthcare Financial Experience Study from Cedar, 58% of U.S. consumers said paying a health care bill was stressful. ’| the CFO of Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center, Vincent Tammaro, was quoted in the Cedar report.

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Medisys Compliance

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

References: Psychotherapy codes for psychologists – APA Services CPT® 90837, Under Psychotherapy Services and Procedures *This article uses Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes, copyright 2024 by the American Medical Association. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association. All rights reserved.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2024

Originally announced February 29th, 2024

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept.

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Medisys Compliance

APRIL 18, 2022

Medisys Data Solutions is a leading medical billing company providing billing and coding services for various medical billing specialities. If you need any assistance in medical billing for your practice, contact us at info@medisysdata.com/ 302-261-9187. Reference: Medicaid alternative payment models.

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Medisys Compliance

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The CMS will postpone this modification until 2024. We at Medisys Data Solutions, the Best medical billing and coding company in the US , will be closely monitoring these and other activities that have an effect on doctors and other healthcare professionals. Conclusion.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 11, 2024

Healthcare IT Today asked 16 experts at ViVE 2024 this question. John summarized a HIMSS 2024 session focused on helping nurses respond to the call button and other in-room alerts by surfacing alerts from disparate devices in a single platform. About 40% of Americans owe money on medical bills.

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Medisys Compliance

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Several significant updates affecting wound care billing took effect in January 2024. Here’s a breakdown of three key wound care billing updates for 2024 that you need to know: 3 Key Wound Care Billing Updates for 2024 1. These changes aim to reflect advancements in medical practices and technologies.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 2023

The deal only appears to involve the trade show – next slated for March 11-15, 2024 in Orlando – and makes no mention of smaller HIMSS events (in-person or online) or the Healthcare IT News or MobiHealthNews publications that HIMSS Media owns. News HIMSS is planning to sell its annual conference to Informa.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 5, 2024

That information may have included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, financial information, medical billing information, insurance information, and medical information such as diagnoses, medication, and treatments.

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2024

That’s the title of a new report that captures the results of a survey conducted in January 2024 among 1,516 employed Americans who received employer-sponsored health insurance.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

While the digital health stakeholder community is convening this week at VIVE in Los Angeles to share innovations in health tech, NABIP has assembled health insurance leaders in Washington, DC, for the 2024 Capital Conference to focus on major health reform issues that are top-of-mind for health care payors — which in today’s U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

adults saying inflation has made it harder to pay medical bills. In particular, 21% of consumers with medical debt say the primary source of that debt was due to the bills from doctor visits. For example, the chart tells us that Walmart welcomes 37 million U.S.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 22, 2023

But they must be comprehensive by 2024, covering all services and prescription drugs. Trend #3: Patient experience will become a greater industry focus Part of the patient experience includes their billing experience.

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Health Law RX

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The Ransomware Settlement In October 2023 (also Cybersecurity Awareness Month), OCR entered into the Ransomware Settlement with Doctors’ Management Services (DMS), a medical management company that provides a variety of administrative services, such as medical billing and payor credentialing.

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Hall Render

APRIL 19, 2024

to Study Treatments for Vascular Abnormalities Federal Appeals Court Hears Arguments on Nation’s First Ban on Gender-affirming Care for Minors Jason Demke Hired as COO at Mercy Hospital Fort Smit Pulaski Tech Awarded $5.7M ’ NEVADA Gov. Kuster calls for protection of patient data from cyber attacks NEW JERSEY Cardiologist pleads guilty to $1.9M

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Healthcare Law Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

OIG anticipates publishing the first ICPGs to address Medicare Advantage and nursing facilities in 2024. [3] FOOTNOTES [1] 88 Fed. 25000 (April 25, 2023). [2] Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, General Compliance Program Guidance, November 2023, [link]. [4]

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Hall Render

MAY 10, 2024

hospitals highly-ranked WASHINGTON DOJ resolves allegations Tacoma spine surgeon billed for unnecessary surgeries WA hospitals lose $1.74 hospitals highly-ranked WASHINGTON DOJ resolves allegations Tacoma spine surgeon billed for unnecessary surgeries WA hospitals lose $1.74 million expansion ‘Very, very unusual.’

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 6, 2024

The reports cover research from the McKinsey Health Institute collaborating with the World Economic Forum on Closing the Women’s Health Gap ; and, from AARP in their paper titled, 2024 She’s the Difference – The Wildcard of the 2024 Election. Health Populi’s Hot Points: More tightly focusing on the U.S.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The Biden administration announced a new initiative that would prohibit unpaid medical bills from affecting American’s credit scores. The definition is part of a plan to create uniform guidelines for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The building industry accounts for 1/3 of all greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.

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